Kinshasa, 15 February, 2024 / 9:25 pm (ACI Africa).
The Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has called upon the people of God in his Metropolitan See to use the Lenten Season to examine pastoral “structures and infrastructures” in line with the theme of the Pastoral Year 2024.
In his message for Lent 2024, Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo underscored the need to keep alive the theme of this year’s pastoral activities in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, “Diocesan structures and infrastructures at the service of evangelization.”
“The journey towards Easter commits us to a collective effort to continually improve our ecclesial structures and infrastructures; to make them places of hope for present and future generations, through projects conceived and matured in collegiality and synodality,” Cardinal Ambongo says.
He reiterates, “I renew my urgent appeal to you to analyze, with a clear forward-looking vision, the needs of the structures and infrastructures that must support and promote our overall pastoral care.”
“May your commitment, coupled with inventive dynamism, provide all our Archdiocesan entities with structures and infrastructures where all members of our ecclesial body will find the marks and signs of God who liberates and saves,” the Congolese member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (OFM Cap) implores in his Wednesday, February 14 message.